Courtney Barnett’s a loser, baby, but she’s not going to let it kill her.

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For someone who’s written songs detailing awkward phone
calls with her mom and using masturbation as a sleep aid, Courtney
Barnett comes across awfully shy in conversation. She answers questions
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There must be some alternate universe along the space-time continuum where Guided By Voices is the biggest band in the world. That's certainly how the group has carried itself through the last 30 years. Started as a sort of bite-sized, basement-brand version of the Who, GBV is basically a decades-old rock'n'roll fantasy camp for midwestern songwriting machine Robert Pollard and the dozens of other ...
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Southampton’s Band of Skulls has spent the past decade refining a sound that, for better or worse, sounds like a good deal of other bands. That’s not necessarily a bad thing—there’s plenty of people who like T. Rex, the Black Keys and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club—but it renders it difficult to see the trio’s raucous brand of blues rock as anything other than a sum of their influences. Still, ...
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[LES GIRLS] During the 15 years since Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda vanished into the intercontinental ether, their duo act, Cibo Matto, wasn’t
quite forgotten. If their initial pair of albums haven�
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An electronic music festival mainstay escapes the stigma of jam.

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[DOWNTEMPO] Doug Appling, known in electronic music
circles as Emancipator, has just been on what he calls a “little
adventure.” He’s currently in Costa Rica, where he performed at the
mus
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Destroying the Wonder Ballroom and the Portland School of Rock!

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Red Fang rules. They rule so hard, in fact, that just one live video won't cut it. Thanks to the folks at Generator, we're gifting you two clips of the Portland stoner metal heroes. The first, from this past Sunday, shows the band destroying a packed and feverish Wonder Ballroom crowd with "Crows in Swine," a track from the group's latest seven inch. And the second is from a performance at that ...
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We're a bit late posting this—hey, we've been busy—but earlier this month, New York chamber pop ensemble Ra Ra Riot delivered a heart-rending performance at the Wonder Ballroom. Generator was there, and captured this clip of the danceably poppy "Beta Love," the title track off the band's surprisingly synthesized new album. Enjoy! Ra Ra Riot at the Wonder Ballroom 2/9/13 from Generator ...
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When weird goes pop.

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[PATTON POP] Kristen Mystirie Calderon, a club hostess and makeup artist from Los Angeles, does not like Tomahawk’s new single.
“Tomahawk,
your music made me wet—juicy even!” she wro
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